Stories, characters and themes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses tell the gripping story of street kids living on the edge in a desolate, urban landscape. Iizuka creates a world that has two dimensions: the gritty realm of drug dealers, homeless kids and prostitutes and the realm of self-fashioning and shape-shifting gods. Powerful themes begin to emerge: the relationship of the gods to humans, women as victims, and the power of timeless storytelling.